Where Does the South End?

Townhall ^ | September 21, 2009 | Paul Greenberg

[denfurb]

Omigosh, even for black people! Who woulda thought there is far less racism in the South?
That's what I have noticed too. Boston, MA, the bastion of liberal - ness, was the most racist city I have ever been in.

[smokingfrog]

You sound serious.

In case you were wondering, I wasn’t.

[wardaddy]

amen to that...born in Goldsboro at Seymour J in 1957 ..

yep the Highlands Cashiers area is mostly southerners anyhow but the NW Grandfather mountain (the other rich mt getaway area in NC..where we have a home coincidentally) in the summer is mostly Florida Jews from the Gold Coast..

Asheville has got to be one of the prettiest yet lesbican and freaky towns in the east...maybe the whole nation.

[wardaddy]

I was going to qualify more about Birmingham but got lazy so late.

I drive thru it 4-5 times per year and just bought a car there from some southern speaking Maronite dealers

that stretch south of Birmingham is defintely Dixie..

Birmingham is like Tupelo...you’re right...kinda new

[wardaddy]

You’ve got to be kidding me about Florida.....geez..parts of northern Florida and down deep into the interior are extremely southern..try DeFuniak Springs or Florala or Panama City or Palatka or Live Oak

i bet you did not know Florida before the Mouse and Cubans and Snowbirds came....back then the whole state was Dixie.

[wardaddy]

anyone who thinks Texas ain’t Southern need only cross the border into New Mexico and hear the accents change immediately

[Wallace T.]

Most of Texas west of I-35 was still Comanche territory during the War Between the States. Thus, there were no regiments from those areas. The sentiments of the settlers of West Texas regarding that war are evident when you consider school names such as Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Robert Lee School in Amarillo, and the use of Rebels for numerous high school teams, like Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Richland High School in suburban Fort Worth, and Midland Lee.

West Texas is physically different than the older South, but it was largely settled by Southerners and is Southern in sentiment.

[wardaddy]

good post

[Wallace T.]

Partial exception for the Hobbs-Clovis-Carlsbad area of southeast New Mexico, which is an extension of West Texas in economy, geography, and language. New Mexicans call this area Little Texas.

[dead]

The south starts just below New Brunswick NJ. It’s all hillbillies from there to Cuba.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I consider the real South, the home of real Southerners to be the lowland former plantation areas where slavery was strong. Upland areas of the South are not Dixie and have more in common with the rural Midwest than they do with Dixie.

[nutmeg]

Interesting post!

NautiNurse: Clemenza's post #54 may interest you...

[wardaddy]

oddly enuff...my Mississippi folks on dad’s side helped build roads out there and to the cavern...they were all born in Artesia.

most came back, those left never had kids and died out in Santa Fe just recently...my great aunt Ruth Horne was mid 90s

if any Santa Fe poster knew her let me know....we couldn’t find what happened...her phone the next Christmas was disconnected and she was in the car of some old Mexican family next door...don’t know if she went to a home or what....I called around and checked death records

we used to go out there a lot as boy and had land above Tesque for a while

[Liberty Valance]

Texas is Texas. Texas is not part of any geographic region, it IS a geographic region.

Well said.

[KYGrandma]

There are several places in Michigan where the people speak southern. It’s easy for them to catch on to my accent, and they kept it up when I left.

[ThomasThomas]

The good folks in Fort Worth let in be know that Dallas is back east.

[ThomasThomas]

To be truly Southern, there must be something agrarian about a place even if it's a city.

Sounds like Fresno CA.

[Eagle Eye]

I take being called a Yankee very seriously and living 45 minutes north of Houston doesn’t make me one.

[Eagle Eye]

I take being called a Yankee very seriously and living 45 minutes north of Houston doesn’t make me one.